subversive

Example Sentences

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The College Republicans chapter at UF has had a reputation for being energetic, subversive and confrontational, say students there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Just for a moment, I wanted to join the badass gang that made subversive movies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Her Guardian colleague Rhik Samadder enjoys the "subversive" nature of The Muppets however, and the show-within-a-show.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

If this vapid, airless, mindless time-waster had subversive designs of being a satire about the first lady of the United States, there’s not much it would have changed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

For a long time there had been rumours—circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy—that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell